… of pregnancy inspired by the “emotional turn” in history.17 This is an invaluable analytical
framework because the language used by women, men, and their families during pregnancy …

… increase in unmarried pregnancies and an emphasis on sex … to both the perception and
experience of pregnancy in these … understanding of pregnancy’, or whether perceived changes …

… modern writers constructed images and opinions about the pregnant body is important to this
… with the advent of social history in the twentieth century, some of this began to shift, though …

… reprinted, even into the twentieth century in the case of one … , and, during the seventeenth
century, the gap between the … A girl who was pregnant was unlikely to be able to force her …

… Their opinions did not differ in any way from those of Rueff, Boaistuau, Pare and Van … of
pregnant women, if we may use this term, disappeared in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. …

… when they become pregnant. They can eschew the perception of pregnancy that has come
… least noted events in the second half of the twentieth century is the loss of horizon. We live …

… In the twentieth century, we can chart changing patterns in … and ‘advice' books for pregnant
women. The medico-social … : we can trace broad shifts in perceptions and attitudes, but at any …

… America, in this thesis, the word “patient” refers only to the pregnant woman and not the fetus
until after live birth. The designation of the fetus as a patient is a 20th century development. …

… within seventeenth-century understandings of pregnancy, Read … two centuries, Fran Bigman
analyses unmarried pregnancies in … about literary pregnancies in the intervening centuries. …

… in history which became more accentuated in the 20th century. Women have not been mere
… of an exclusively female scene and therefore perceived as ambivalent figures, the object of …